Hospitals are moving to the cloud, but worries remain

Dive Brief:

• Despite growing interest in cloud storage and applications, many healthcare organizations are holding back due to concerns about compliance, security and privacy, according to a new Datica survey of hospital CIOs.
• In all, 17.7% of respondents said their organizations have more than half of their existing software infrastructure remotely hosted or in the cloud and 15% said a quarter to half of their infrastructure is cloud-based.
• Nearly a third (32%) called cloud hosting for existing applications a top five priority while 60% ranked it as a top 10 priority.

Hospitals are also using the cloud to launch new applications. Of CIOs who took the survey, 45% said...

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